The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-01
swell. and others who wero There.

| In the BuDDOrtinH company COulu DC mucn hu-
| mred, although several escaped dislike.
sweiis and others who wero There.
II was In many respects the most remark
able first night that New York has ever seen.
| Whether society was for or against Mrs. Potter
may have boon doubtful yesterday morning.
but II certainly put itself on record last night
| as approving tho stop that the ex-leader OF
society has taken in embracing the stage
| wholly and completely. A well-known society
man seemed to hit 1t on the head whom he SAID
In the lobby before the performance began:
Mrs. Potter. y understand, actually need
cd money. The talk nbout her husband having
twenty thousand year is all bosh. -Four
thousand is about tho figure. Mrs. Pottcrs
share OF the proceeds tonight alone Is nearly
three thousand dollars. md her share for the
weeks engagement will undoubtedly BIO moro
than her husbands entire income for the year.
BY the time Mrs Potter Is as old as Mrs. Lang
try is now, she can easily make half million
dollars Then she can settle down In New York
and resume her leadership In society. No man
or woman can hold q position securely In New
York society when harassed by money carcs.
got q twist down the street myself last winter.
nnd know how 1t feels"
The house was unusually brilliant, and there
was that mir OF gracious and sunve ease which
Observation-Disclosures mObJ Cihih
distinct and palpablo endorsement by society.
The bowling swell at the theatre. no matter
whether 1t be woman or man, is an en-
gaging spectacle. The snob looks trim In his
dress clothes, sits painfully erect, and looks
freshly barbered and monstrously stiff He is
uneasy, and evidently on parade. The howlinE
swell on the other hanh arrears s RS about as
he leans over the edge of his box at tho end OF
his seat and chats with neighboring ac-
ntns,a f,, I.tF,, tt,xf md tnf I'm
and he is in every position thoroughly at home.
Half the people in the theatre last night ad.
MRS. Mr. or MISS and there Was no end OF
jolity and amusement. The management did
not show very pronounced and uneonquera-
BILE passion in the direction OF giving away
seats, and there was an absence of the usual
run OF frowsy and iong-haired people who
journalism or tho stage, and Who write I'M
readable books and unstable plays. Only tho
mugwpmps Of the newspaper profession were
ierent i papers and handful or more Of less
famous. writer's. They did not differ partic.
sionally looked richer than their neighbors,
NJ Charles Delmonieo locked . I pale; ami LIABLE;
| and stout, man with an autocratic expression
OF face and a tendency to balloon-like proper
new performance without the Marquis Croi-
| sic Immediately behind the conductor would
Heq ev ena the M 'he
his sent, usually presenting broad and mus;
cular back to Nine. La MarIuise. and looked
admiration through an enormous field glass.
Mr., Brock Cutting and his brother were ad-
soeePFv roed into smooth AND
sistent exteriors. They were apparently, ac--
guninted with every one. including Mr.; Hart
as steadfest and Sincere admirer Of Mrs. Pot
tors. Mr.. Hart Lyon has fnther and grand
| father. Ono Is named Hart and the other Is
| named LYON. Together they the Third
Avenue Railroad. Mr. Hart Lyon is eenerally
to that in
Mr.. Leander Richardson. who has left jour
sat beside his star John A. Mackay, while
James barton hey and Charles Schroeder dor
heatre and the Other eTu manages MS Potter
Mr. Edward Aronson, Prentice Treadwell. the
well-known architect: the ex-wicked Senator
the as f e
thereby. But no one murmured. FOL. the group
was of too much prominence to BIO lightly
Mir. Robert Hiliard. the king of the dudes.
wore wide silk stripes on his trousers, white
waistcont with black buttons, black studs in
tie. His gloves had black STITCHING. but his
handkerchief was OF cambria and pure white.
was generally felt that he had made the most
| Of his opportunities. though it was generally
admitted that there Is small opportunity for
| originality in the conventional evening dress
whom 30 much has been cabjed back and forth
thoroughly ut ease. and Thoroughly enjoyed
| the performance. He is tall. thin and nervous.
w. OF the veteran ilrst-nighters and cub men;
eonten Mn and placdity The fact that it
| dollars apiece for the single performance last
ths Ecekst OF Mr. ga Ssniord Mr. and Mrs Fierrs
and determined while Mrs. Ioriard seemed
oppressed by the heat; Mr.. Herman Oelrichs
| had a rich old burgundy color, an athletic pair
| of shoulders and seemed to know everybody
| In the theatre.
A smallish man with florid face, a short
was joins Hosy The lady P wRo sat bcsde hm
and who looked the picture of aristocratic ex-
WITNESSES TEeere gy mS ehbby mam m
strobe In beside lady who was ,all. thin. and
Lancey kane. short, young man with
bristling .moustache and u look of conscious
n New York, was Mr. Marion Story Of tho Hub.
SsS lind beauty 4s P Of New s sSsb sqSS s
Frank Leslie were two widely discussed audi
tors. and Miss staMifer who has been engaged
other eminent men. was known to some Of
Mr; and Mrs; Flagler, of Standard Oil fame
the famous ,mi'lionares.. Mrs. Westinghouse
wore a striking toilet Her. oddly arranged
mass of brown hair attracted comment. The
fortune of the Westinghouse family was made
out of the celebrated air brake of that name.
Dr., Armtaees Baptist Church. looked quiet
and unpretentious and not at all as though
they owned forty or fifty million dollars.
Among others were Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Stone Mr; and Mrs Samuel Z. Colgate, Mr..
WinsIow, Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Bradhurst. MIR.
Randolph Robinson. Mr.. and Mrs. Seward
Webb and Mr.. LIE Grand Cannon.
Joseph jefferson Mt the Star.
A full house laughed at Mr.. Joseph Jefrer-
son last night until II cried IT Ind n chnpca m